Today started with me heading back to my hometown (Dallas) to give the keynote speech at the Association of Fundraising Professionals National Conference.

The audience was full of people who dedicate their lives to raising money for so many great causes and I was honored to share my story with them.

As I was walking in to the event my blackberry went off. The message – Tony Snow has a recurrence of his cancer. In that moment I was reminded again of how pervasive this disease is.

We were reminded last week with Elizabeth Edwards. We…

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Over the last 24 hours I have watched and read so many great stories about Elizabeth Edwards. I continue to be inspired by her courage and strength. Here are a couple of stories I thought worth sharing.

Eugene Robinson has a great piece in the Washington Post.

San Fransisco Chronicle journalist C.W. Nevius shares the perspective of people living with cancer.

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Both Elizabeth Edwards and her husband John have become great examples for us today.

In the face of her cancer recurrence, Elizabeth was quoted as saying that “I expect to do next week all the things I did last week. And the week after that, and next year at the same time.”

John Edwards went on to add “You can go cower in the corner and hide or you can go out there and stand up for what you believe in. We have no intentions of cowering in the corner.”

As Elizabeth and John know, the fact of…

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With LIVESTRONG Day (May 16th) right around the corner, I thought this would be a good time to ask Doug Ulman (President of the LAF) to make a series of posts about the war on cancer: where we are, what the LAF has done and how we plan to move forward.

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Lance

In our collective war with cancer, first waged over 36 years ago by Richard Nixon, we have made great progress. During this time the number of cancer survivors has tripled. Diagnostics like the mammogram are widely available to screen women for breast cancer. In

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Yesterday LAF President, Doug Ulman, spoke at a kick off event for Kill Cancer. Kill Cancer is a Texas initiative that would bring $3 billion in cancer-related funds to the state of Texas. In doing this Texas would position itself as a leader in the fight against cancer, by bringing together the world’s top scientists with the state’s cancer treatment and research institutions to work in on a collaborated effort to deliver cures in our lifetime. The Kill Cancer initiative is a great example of creative thinking about the problem and illustrates the role that state…

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